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Hundreds of thousands of ducks are to be culled in three areas of France following a severe outbreak of bird flu. The measure will cover all free range ducks, plus geese, in the Gers, Landes and Hautes-Pyrenees areas. …
An outbreak of bird flu has been confirmed at a farm with 5,000 turkeys near Louth in Lincolnshire. The birds have been affected with the virulent H5N8 strain of the disease. A 3km protection zone and a 10km…
An outbreak of avian flu has been reported at a goose farm in Lubuskie province, western Poland, where around 700 birds have been found dead. Samples of dead birds have been sent to the State Veterinary Institute, which confirmed an…
A duck farm in France is the latest casualty of the outbreaks of H5N8 highly pathogenic avian influenza that have been spreading around Europe and beyond in recent weeks. Two thousand ducks died from the disease out of a…
A highly contagious strain of bird flu has killed 500 ducks on a Dutch poultry farm. Scientists at Wageningen University confirmed that the dead birds, which were discovered on Friday, had succumbed to the H5N8 strain. The disease is not…
Iran reported two outbreaks of the highly contagious H5N8 bird flu virus at farms located in the Tehran region, the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) said on Monday, citing a report from the Iranian agriculture ministry. The outbreaks…
The news agency dpa reports that around 8 800 geese on two poultry farms will be culled in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein because some of the animals are infected with the bird flu. Dpa said on Sunday…
South Korea has confirmed the country’s first outbreaks of the highly pathogenic H5N6 bird flu virus and has ramped up quarantine measures in response, agriculture ministry officials said on Friday. The outbreaks occurred at two poultry farms in the…
Over 1,250 dead birds have been found in the province of Noord-Holland in the past week, increasing fears that bird flu has taken hold in the wild bird population again. The dead birds were found around Edam, Volendam and Medemblik…
The H5N8 virus has also been found in Hungary, Poland, the Netherlands, Denmark and Croatia. Germany, Switzerland and Austria reported new outbreaks of a severe strain of bird flu on Saturday in the latest in a series of cases…
